Joint feedback by energy intensive industries to the Expert Group on Climate Change Policy

Apr 18, 2023

List of topics

  1. Climate neutrality plans: application at sub-installation instead of installation level
    a. The precedent of the activity level changes applied at sub-installation level
    b. The reference to “product benchmarks” in article 10a paragraph 1
    c. Only article 10b(4) “shall be read as to referring to installation level”
    d. Inconsistency with the legal wording of the Directive (penalty also to fall back benchmarks
    sub-installations)
    e. Distortion of competition among installations
  2. Climate neutrality plans: targets and milestones based on measures and investments instead of
    emissions reduction
  3. Energy efficiency conditionality: sufficient time for implementing audits’ recommendations
  4. Historical activity level

The whole document can be downloaded here.